Improvement in fluted ruffles



NITE STATES THOMAS RO'BJOHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLUTED PLUFFLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. @2,51% dated April 26, 1864.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, THOMAS RoBJoHN, of the city, count-y, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fluted Ruffles and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

In the manufacture of tluted ruflies and iluted or gauffered trimmings and fabrics generally it has been common to use for the purpose of retaining the llutes in place a thread, which, after having been coated with a solution of gum or other adhesive 1naterial,'is

placed in contact with the flutes and caused to adhere thereto. There is no objection to the use of this thread on white muslin goods, but in silk and colored goods the moisture which is in the said thread when it is iirst applied fr qnently produces a stain or discoloration.

My invention consists in the manufacture of lluted ruflles without the use of an adhesive thread bypressing down the flutes into a flat or plaitlike form at any portion of the width of the ruffle with such a degree of pressure that the so pressed portion will retain its pressed form, and so retain the flutes in place.

Figures 1 and 2 are face views of two different kinds of ruffles manufactured accord ing to my invention, the latter having been pressed flat in a central line and the former along one edge. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the unflattened luted portions of the ruftles. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the flattened portion of the ruffle.

The pressing and iiattening of the portion c of the ruffle may be effected by various means, but the best mode of doing it is by means of a presser operating between the fluted rollers by which the tlutin g is performed, substantially as described in Reissued Letters Patent No. 1,556, and flattening the desired portion of the ilutes by pressing them against the dat bottom of a circumferential recess formed in one of the rollers, or between the two rollers having the same axis, the said presser having either an intermittent or a constant pressure. The portion of the flutes thus flattened may be in a central line, or in aline at anyT distance from either edge.7 or at one edge, according to the style of ruffle desired, as the sewing' by which the ruffle is attached to a garment or secured to or in a band should come through this portion. The pressed portion of the flutes has in the section lengthwise of the ruffle (represented in Fig. 4) the same appearance as what are called boxplaits.77 The pressure applied must be suficient to make the pressed portion retain this form, which will insure the retention of the utes b b in proper form. The attening operation ofthe presser will be aided by the heating of the ilutingrollers.

The ruffle may be made either single or twoply. It may be taken from the lluting machine, if required, to a sewing-machine, and then stitched or ornamented in a similar manner to the luted goods made with adhe sive thread.

Having now described my invention, I claim as a new article of manufacture- Ailuted ruffle in which the flutes are re tained in place without the use of an adhesive thread by pressing them lat along any por tion of the width of the ruffle, substantially as herein specified.

THOS. ROBJOHN. Witnesses:

J As. P. HALL, GEO. M. REED. 

